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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 10:30 pm    Post subject: [solved] How to stay with KDE-4.9.5? Reply with quote

Dear all,

how can I stay with KDE-4.9.5 when performing an "emerge -avuND world"?

I want to update my whole system except KDE related packages. Is there a "one-liner" for the package.mask file or do I have to mask each KDE package?

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope portage-2.1 has --exclude. portage-2.2 has that and it is very easy if it is available. You can do the following to exclude most kde packages, except a few like kdevelop which are not in those categories:
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emerge -auDNv world --exclude "kde-base/* kde-misc/*"

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thx!

Seems to work. Updating now.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
emerge -auDNv world --exclude "kde-base/* kde-misc/*"


That worked but how can I make this permanently? E.g. in "package.mask". My aim is to avoid updates to kde-4.10 but allow updates for kde-4.9.x.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mask them in package.mask. I think you can do it like this: >=kde-*/*-4.9.6

You want to mask the higher version rather than simply say greater than 4.9.5 because you don't want to mask the -r* bug fixes.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Doctor wrote:
mask them in package.mask. I think you can do it like this: >=kde-*/*-4.9.6

You want to mask the higher version rather than simply say greater than 4.9.5 because you don't want to mask the -r* bug fixes.


No doesn't work. It tells me "invalid atom":
Code:
# emerge -avuND world
--- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.mask: >=kde-*/*-4.9.6

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry, apparently the wild cards don't work with versions.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 3:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You may be able to qlist -IC kde-base/*, qlist -IC kde-misc/*, sed and awk to generate a list with numbers, but I am afraid I can't be of help there.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Assuming you have a /etc/portage/package.mask directory, here is what you can run
Code:
eix -ICc kde- --only-names | sed -e 's/^/>=/' -e 's/$/-4.10/' > /etc/portage/package.mask/kde.mask

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I refer precisely to the title of your thread : "How to stay with 4.9.5", then there are miscellaneous other annoyances to be addressed.

BTW... Bug 462922 ended... WONTFIX! :evil:

This is what I do in order to stay on a particular kde release (adapted for 4.9.5) :

1/ Mask the new packages.

a/ Find in Bugzilla the bug requesting stabilization of kde 4.10.1 : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462890
b/ Fetch from the attachements the list of packages to stabilize. In this case : List_v6
c/ Edit that list, (remove comments / packages not matching your arch...) AND
- Prepend all lines with the > sign.
d/ Save and cat the file >> package.mask

This will do the trick for a little while (very little as a matter of fact, devs were so happy that they dropped kdelibs-4.9.5... the morning after 4.10.1 stabilization... :roll:)
The problem is now that on your next emerge --sync, ebuilds will disappear from your tree =>
- Forget emerge -e
- Forget any update of whatever kde dependency that would force revdep-rebuild to suggest the rebuild of whatever kde package...

=> You just cannot expect to really stay on your release... unless you take great care to :

2/ Save kde-4.9.5 ebuilds into your local overlay.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

aCOSwt wrote:
BTW... Bug 462922 ended... WONTFIX! :evil:

I really can understand the maintainance argument. Though it should not be THAT much extra work if changes in all versions of a package need to be done.
What I could not understand was the stabilization of a x.x.1-release! In kde's past .1 and quite often .2-releases had to fix quite some bugs. With kde-4.10 we got really many rewrites. Large parts in plasma were rewritten in QML. Nepomuk2 landed in many apps. kscreenlocker was redone (even got moved into ksmserver) That's not just a small rewrite - that are great changes in the underlying core-parts. And in this stage we get the earliest stabilization of a new minor release ever (as far as I remember). With the big additional issue to have Gentoo be fast with follow-up-stabilizations (4.10.2 IN_PROGRESS). That's why I went stable - I did not want to do compilation orgies every month.
I think I will wait now until 4.10.3 is released, then update to gcc-4.7 (stabilization in progress) and go kde-testing again (for the more stable kde experience ;))
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

franzf wrote:
aCOSwt wrote:
BTW... Bug 462922 ended... WONTFIX! :evil:

I really can understand the maintainance argument.
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I was suspecting you capable of such tolerance...An unsuspected Gentoo user phenomenon :wink:
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

aCOSwt wrote:
If I refer precisely to the title of your thread : "How to stay with 4.9.5", then there are miscellaneous other annoyances to be addressed.

BTW... Bug 462922 ended... WONTFIX! :evil:

This is what I do in order to stay on a particular kde release (adapted for 4.9.5) :

1/ Mask the new packages.

a/ Find in Bugzilla the bug requesting stabilization of kde 4.10.1 : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462890
b/ Fetch from the attachements the list of packages to stabilize. In this case : List_v6
c/ Edit that list, (remove comments / packages not matching your arch...) AND
- Prepend all lines with the > sign.
d/ Save and cat the file >> package.mask

This will do the trick for a little while (very little as a matter of fact, devs were so happy that they dropped kdelibs-4.9.5... the morning after 4.10.1 stabilization... :roll:)
The problem is now that on your next emerge --sync, ebuilds will disappear from your tree =>
- Forget emerge -e
- Forget any update of whatever kde dependency that would force revdep-rebuild to suggest the rebuild of whatever kde package...

=> You just cannot expect to really stay on your release... unless you take great care to :

2/ Save kde-4.9.5 ebuilds into your local overlay.


I followed your steps but the problem is now (as you mentioned) that kdelibs-4.9.5 is gone... If I mask the kde-4.10.x packages portage wants to downgrade to kde-4.4.11 now :(

Looks like I have to stick to my half upgraded system now... Where can I get the kdelibs-4.9.5.ebuild ?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 9:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

koschi wrote:
Where can I get the kdelibs-4.9.5.ebuild ?

Of course you can get everything back from http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/ if you want to.
But it might... take some time.

If you prefer, you can give me a valid mail address via the pm facility and I'll send you a tarball of my kde-4.9.5 tree.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

aCOSwt wrote:
koschi wrote:
Where can I get the kdelibs-4.9.5.ebuild ?

Of course you can get everything back from http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/ if you want to.
But it might... take some time.

If you prefer, you can give me a valid mail address via the pm facility and I'll send you a tarball of my kde-4.9.5 tree.


THX! Got it in my local tree now and I'm able to perform a normal "emerge -avuND world" now.

Let's wait until kde-4.10.3 becomes stable...
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't recall the exact version but some kde update I did pretty recently (probably 4.10.1) was absolutely awful; plasma consistently losing programs in the taskbar/pager was my "favourite" bug. 4.10.2 seems to have fixed most of the worst problems on my end at least...
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